Dr David Silkenat

PhD

Senior Lecturer; American History

Office hours

Tuesdays 1-3

Roles

Co-Director, History for Schools

Affiliated research centres

Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History

Biography

A native of New York City, I received my undergraduate degree in History from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. After several years of teaching high school in Florida, I returned to North Carolina for graduate study at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. From 2008 to 2013, I taught at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota.

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Books - Authored

Silkenat, D. (2019) Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press

Silkenat, D. (2016) Driven from home: North Carolina's civil war refugee crisis. University of Georgia Press

Silkenat, D. (2012) Hard times is the cry: Debt in populist thought in North Carolina. In: Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures. University Press of Mississippi, pp. 101-127

This article was published on 18 Jan, 2019

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